On the islands of the Great Ocean

Journal of Pacific History

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-174

  D'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont ^a  

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EID: 61249377894     PISSN: 00223344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022334032000120512     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. J.-S.-C. Dumont d'Urville, An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas, trans. Helen Rosenman, vol. 1 (Hawai'i 1987).
2. In the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie (1831), 103-4 and 264-6, there is a summary of the 'session of 16 December 1831', which notes that 'Mr de Rienzi read a brief description of the fifth part of the world, which he was to have read to the Society, in its general session on 25 November. This description, in which the author proposes a new classification and new names, has been sent to the committee of the Bulletin for publication therein'.
3. Conrad Malte-Brun published a popular multi-volume geography of the world in French and English, using the term 'Océanique' to describe the Pacific. C. Malte-Brun, A System of Universal Geography, or a Description of all the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied with Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables, 8 vols (Boston 1826-31).
4. The atlas maker Adrien H. Brué had been using 'Océania' on his maps of the Pacific since 1814. A.H. Brué, Atlas Universel de Géographie, physique, politique, ancienne & moderne (Paris 1828).
5. See Serge Tcherkézoff, 'A long and unfortunate voyage towards the "invention" of the Melanesia/Polynesia distinction 1595-1832', this issue, for earlier use of the terms 'Polynesia' and 'Micronesia'. The invention of 'Malaysia' is credited by Dumont d'Urville to 'Mr Lesson', most likely either Réné-Primavère Lesson, a pharmacist and natural historian who joined the Coquille expedition in 1821, or his brother Pierre-Adolphe Lesson who was the doctor on the 1826-29 Astrolabe and Zélée expedition.
6. The reference is probably to John L. Nicholas, Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815 in Company with the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South Wales (London 1817).